Listings for the PC edition of Modern Warfare 2 on sites such as
Amazon,
Best Buy, and
GameStop reflect a $59.99 retail price, which is the price of the console
versions, and a good $10.00 higher than the typical price of just about every PC
game in history (thanks Ant/FiringSquad/BeefJack).
Pricing of the console versions of the military shooter sequel has already
caused controversy, and now it looks like the PC version may as well. We've
contacted Activision for comment on this. Update:
Big Download points out
Walmart.com currently lists the game for $49.82 that also includes a bonus
$10.00 eGift card.

The Advocate: Really? I gave up on WaW when it got into the last few levels. I got stuck at one bit, got frustrated, then decided to play around a little bit, and discovered that there's a scripted tripwire that you have to pass, and until then the game will throw endless enemies at you. There's no killing them all (I tried), so rather than carefully scripting a challenging sequence and letting you move on, you have to move forward to trip a certain point, then one after, then one after, then hit a checkpoint. I finally got past that bit, only to realize that the last four or five maps in the game did that exclusively. In other words, no realism, no logic, just endless streams of baddies until you hit the next tripwire, and the next, and the next. Personally, I think that's unforgivably lazy and shoddy game design if it's done once, but for the last third of a game, if not more? Treyarch certainly won't be getting a dime out of me after that crap.